“... always with that magical child air about her, that delightful sense of perpetually attending a party.”
“In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.”
“The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.”
“I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?”
“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.”